The development of tools and skills for learning (Taha Tinana: Nga pukehga hai ako)
… and embraces ….
Our relationship with the land (To tatau hononga kit e whenua)
Our Bunnythorpe School Vision Statement
To enhance learning and explore new opportunitiesthat will prepare our school community for the future.
Our children will move forward from Bunnythorpe School:
· With strong foundations in literacy and numeracy · As purposeful, self motivated learners · With pride on themselves and their achievements · With the ability to make good choices in their lives, and the skills and vales required for citizenship and leadership in the future · As risk takers and innovators · As critical and creative thinkers
What we expect from our Students at Bunnythorpe School:
· Respect: for ourselves, the needs and ideas of others, for our own and others’ property, for our family and community · Celebrating Success: being a learning family within our wider community. Supporting and encouraging each other. Celebrating the success of others. · Pride: In ourselves, our work, our school and community, and in our achievements. · Responsibility: for our own actions, for our own learning. Owning up to our mistakes, and taking control of our own learning. · Integrity: Being honest, true to ourselves, our school, our community · Courage: to take risks, to have a go, to not fear being wrong, to stand up for our own ideas and our own identity · Perseverance: Not giving up when learning is challenging. Being able to tackle problems from a different perspective.
· Every child can learn, · Every child has strengths on with to build. · Expectations determine the quality of learning. · The best learning is collaborative, active and self-driven. · Our teachers are learners too. · Literacy, Numeracy and the Key Competencies are our core business. · Home-school partnership is essential for learning. · Achievement will be celebrated. · A safe, quality and stimulating environment enhances all levels of learning within our school community.
This is our curriculum we developed after a couple of days with Lester Flockton. We are using this as the basis for our school based curriculum and are now fine tuning this.
The diagram was originally Lester's and the board and the principal made some ammendments. We added 'communicative' as a fifth principle as this was considered vital by the board. Our own values are in the middle of the wheel and the texts around the outside are a summary of the essence statements, with the bullet points being the strands.
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We talked within our community about what we wanted our children to leave our school with. We redeveloped our Vision and Mission Statements
Our Mission at Bunnythorpe School:
To provide quality learning that prepares our students for their future by nurturing:
… and embraces ….
Our Bunnythorpe School Vision Statement
To enhance learning and explore new opportunitiesthat will prepare our school community for the future.
Our children will move forward from Bunnythorpe School:
· With strong foundations in literacy and numeracy
· As purposeful, self motivated learners
· With pride on themselves and their achievements
· With the ability to make good choices in their lives, and the skills and vales required for citizenship and leadership in the future
· As risk takers and innovators
· As critical and creative thinkers
What we expect from our Students at Bunnythorpe School:
· Respect: for ourselves, the needs and ideas of others, for our own and others’ property, for our family and community
· Celebrating Success: being a learning family within our wider community. Supporting and encouraging each other. Celebrating the success of others.
· Pride: In ourselves, our work, our school and community, and in our achievements.
· Responsibility: for our own actions, for our own learning. Owning up to our mistakes, and taking control of our own learning.
· Integrity: Being honest, true to ourselves, our school, our community
· Courage: to take risks, to have a go, to not fear being wrong, to stand up for our own ideas and our own identity
· Perseverance: Not giving up when learning is challenging. Being able to tackle problems from a different perspective.
· Every child can learn,
· Every child has strengths on with to build.
· Expectations determine the quality of learning.
· The best learning is collaborative, active and self-driven.
· Our teachers are learners too.
· Literacy, Numeracy and the Key Competencies are our core business.
· Home-school partnership is essential for learning.
· Achievement will be celebrated.
· A safe, quality and stimulating environment enhances all levels of learning within our school community.
This is our curriculum we developed after a couple of days with Lester Flockton. We are using this as the basis for our school based curriculum and are now fine tuning this.
The diagram was originally Lester's and the board and the principal made some ammendments. We added 'communicative' as a fifth principle as this was considered vital by the board. Our own values are in the middle of the wheel and the texts around the outside are a summary of the essence statements, with the bullet points being the strands.